WordPress Theme Customisation for Beginners

10 simple changes you can make to customise off-the-shelf WordPress themes and make your website stand out.

In this course, we’ll go through 10 simple ways to customise standard wordpress themes to make your website stand out using CSS. Standard wordpress themes are a great place to start, but chances are, other small businesses and bloggers will also have chosen the same starting point! This course covers how to customise key elements of any standard theme to differentiate your website with your own style.

Customise Key Elements of Standard WordPress Themes

Starting with a standard off-the-shelf wordpress template, by the end of this course, you will be able to customise key elements of your website theme:

Learn how to inspect the style properties of website elements.
Recognise CSS selectors of key website elements.
Learn from articles and opinion pieces provided in course resources.
Adjust fonts, colours, sizes and spacing to modify the appearance of themes.
Each lecture will be accompanied by course resources including links and text documents to help you navigate the customisation process and use for future reference.